Common Name: Texas madeiravine
Family: Basellaceae
Common Synonyms: none
USDA Hardiness Zone: NA
Growth Habit: Vine
Origin: Tropical America
FISC Category: -
FDACS Listed Noxious Weed: No
Introduction Date: Earliest Florida specimen vouchered in 1964
IFAS Assessment:
Twining vine with stems to 8 m long. Leaves simple, ovate to elliptic, 2-16 cm long. Tiny white fragrant flowers clustered on branched panicles or racemes, 3-35 cm long. Fruits ovoid, 1-1.4 mm.
Disturbed hammocks
Cultivated for its showy and fragrant flowers.
No specific recommendations available
Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 16+ vols. New York and Oxford.
Wunderlin, R. P., and B. F. Hansen. 2008. Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants (http://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/).[S. M. Landry and K. N. Campbell (application development), Florida Center for Community Design and Research.] Institute for Systematic Botany, University of South Florida, Tampa.